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	The Rest is Noise

ghiberti

12-30-2007 5:28 PM

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12-30-2007 5:33 PM

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website of New Yorker music critic Alex Ross - contains clips of the music he writes about in his book The Rest is Noise

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2ac047a0-dc2b-43c7-9103-c0406ae1b034/5E9371DD-222D-498E-BBED-8A18C267B24D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/05/what_is_this.html" href="http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/05/what_is_this.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.therestisnoise.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/05/what_is_this.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.therestisnoise.com/img/776CF542-FFFD-412C-912C-16AC0623006B" alt="Book_cover_7" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/05/what_is_this.html">My first book, <EM>The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century,</EM> was published by <A href="http://www.fsgbooks.com/">Farrar, Straus and Giroux</A> in October 2007 and is forthcoming from <A href="http://www.4thestate.co.uk/">4th Estate</A> in the UK in March 2008. (Links: <A href="http://www.amazon.com/Rest-Noise-Listening-Twentieth-Century/dp/0374249393">Amazon</A>, <A href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780374249397&itm=1">Barnes & Noble</A>. Independent stores: <A href="http://www.booksense.com/index.jsp">Book Sense</A>.) It is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music, which remains an obscure world for most people. While paintings of Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, and lines from T. S. Eliot are quoted on the yearbook pages of alienated teenagers across the land, twentieth-century classical music still sends ripples of unease through audiences.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/05/what_is_this.html"><EM>The Rest Is Noise </EM>shows why twentieth-century composers felt compelled to create a famously bewildering variety of sounds, from the purest beauty to the purest noise. It tells of a remarkable array of maverick personalities who resisted the cult of the classical past, struggled against the indifference of a wide public, and defied the will of dictators.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5E9371DD-222D-498E-BBED-8A18C267B24D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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